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Steven Winn

Steven Winn is a San Francisco based free-lance writer and critic and frequent City Arts & Lectures interviewer. His work has appeared in Art News, California, Humanities, Manhattan, Symphony Magazine and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Articles by this Author

Chamber Orchestra/Orchestra Review
October 15, 2018
Manfred Honeck Conjures an Evening of Big Sounds
BY Steven Winn

Cellist Truls Mørk tears into Prokofiev’s Sinfonia concertante with the S.F. Symphony.

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Early Music/Baroque Review
October 8, 2018
Soloists Rule in Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass With Philharmonia Baroque
BY Steven Winn

The singers had it in a concert of Mozart’s sacred works.

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Opera Review
October 5, 2018
Forceful Lovers Lead S.F. Opera’s Tosca
BY Steven Winn

The potent singing combination of Carmen Giannattasio and Brian Jagde distinguish this production.

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Early Music/Baroque Review
August 11, 2018
Aspiring Musicians Show Their Stuff in an Inspired Semele
BY Steven Winn

American Bach Soloists’ Academy Festival Orchestra and Academy Singers join forces in a festive Handel mashup.

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Opera Review
August 7, 2018
Kendra Broom Electrifying in West Edge Opera's Pelléas & Mélisande
BY Steven Winn

The intrepid company masters the challenges of Debussy's opera of doomed love.

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Opera Review
August 6, 2018
An Affecting Rake Finds Its Footing
BY Steven Winn

Merola Opera stages Stravinsky’s neoclassical masterwork, and succeeds in the end.

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Recital Review
July 3, 2018
Anno Schreier Takes His Place in the Pantheon of Lieder Composers
BY Steven Winn

Mezzo-soprano Kinda Scharich joins pianist John Parr in the North American premiere of a new song-cycle.

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Chamber Orchestra/Orchestra Review
May 22, 2018
New Century Chamber Orchestra Makes the Most of Minimalism
BY Steven Winn

The West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’s Third Piano Concerto dominates the program.

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Early Music/Baroque Review
May 16, 2018
American Bach Soloists Go Dancing
BY Steven Winn

Bach’s orchestral suites, masterfully interpreted.

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Chamber Orchestra/Orchestra Review
May 7, 2018
Ray Chen Raises the Roof at S.F. Symphony
BY Steven Winn

Brahms’s colossal Violin Concerto is bookended with bombastic works by Prokofiev and Andrew Norman.

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Early Music/Baroque Review
May 5, 2018
Jordi Savall (and Bagpiper) Explore the Celtic World
BY Steven Winn

Foot-stomping, exuberant, and unabashedly sentimental, Jordi Savall’s latest musical tour is still about sensitive, extraordinary performances.

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Chamber Orchestra/Orchestra Review
April 22, 2018
Brief Joys With the Berkeley Symphony
BY Steven Winn

The whole was less than the sum of its parts in this ambitious reading of Beethoven's Ninth.

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Recital Review
April 16, 2018
András Schiff's Insights Into Brahms
BY Steven Winn

Anchoring his program with Brahms's Op. 116, the pianist constructed a recital of suggestive connections.

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Recital Review
April 14, 2018
Nicholas Phan Makes the Belle Époque His Own
BY Steven Winn

The tenor interprets French songs of erotic longing and ecstasy with authority, nuance, and passion.

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Early Music/Baroque Review
April 10, 2018
Monteverdi's Genius on Full Display With the American Bach Soloists
BY Steven Winn

A program of ravishing beauty draws from the timeless Vespro della Beata Vergine.

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Recital Review
April 9, 2018
Schwabacher Soloists Are Ready for Prime Time
BY Steven Winn

The mostly American program provided a fine platform for four emerging opera talents.

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Chamber Orchestra/Orchestra Review
March 5, 2018
Pablo Heras-Casado Is Magnetic and Vivid With the S.F. Symphony
BY Steven Winn

The Spanish conductor deftly led some high-octane music-making.

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Chamber Music Review
March 2, 2018
Superstar Trio Has Its (Impeccable) Way with Schubert and Brahms
BY Steven Winn

Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma meld spirits in a sublime evening of chamber music.

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Opera Review
February 17, 2018
Opera Parallèle Delivers a Melancholy Valentine
BY Steven Winn

An intriguing concept and strong performances lift short operas by Jake Heggie and Leonard Bernstein above an overly fussy production.

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Early Music/Baroque Review
February 12, 2018
Isserlis Tears Into a Haydn Cello Concerto With Philharmonia Baroque
BY Steven Winn

The orchestra shows versatility supporting Isserlis and in a lithe performance of a Haydn symphony.

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